Woof! What a week!

Pancakes, passion, promises and new beginnings, brought to us with, Lent, Valentines, and now the Chinese New Year.

Gōng Xǐ Fā Cái

Wishing you happiness and prosperity in the year of the Dog

If you know me, you know I love my dogs, I have three. And here are my three dogs, portrayed in my latest addiction – felting.

I work from a home studio, and my dogs prove to be everything that they say they are in the Chinese horoscope – honest and loyal, the truest of friends and most reliable.

But like most pigeon holes, even being a ‘Dog’ is more complicated…

Because in Chinese Horoscopes, you have to also factor in the Element for the year you are born too. Which is interesting, because Donald Trump was born in a Dog year (as were Bush and Clinton). Voters voted for his honesty and hard work, but his element is Fire, making him particularly true to his Chinese horoscope, as also being hot-tempered, talkative and not in harmony with others. Yes, it’s a big pigeon hole, there were a lot of people born in 1946, and are Fire Dogs, not all did something unique, but three did, and got to run a country.

And my point is…

In our day-to-day business, very few of us do something totally unique. We fit into pigeon holes of design, or marketing, or whatever, and those pigeon holes are crowded. We use our branding to be discovered in the throng. And we build relationships, we get to be liked and trusted, and become the ‘go-to’ person to solve a problem for our clients and customers. That feels good. And so, we are unique in our own little pigeon holes.

Why not embrace Asian culture and join in the spirit of the New Year with 1.38 billion other people? There’s fun to be had at the fabulous New Year parade in Chinatown this weekend. It’s the biggest of its kind outside Asia, and a fabulous spectacle.

My favourite Fire DogIt’s a movie, and always comes away with us on staycation holidays, perfect for a rainy UK summer day. It’s about a boy, a dog, a murder, friendship, family, exploitation, being lost and found, it has drama and best of all, a happy ending.

Happy Valentines!

If you missed my little Valentines video, you can watch it here. It was made mostly on my phone using Videoshop – which is a great little App (the Fuz splash was made in Adobe AfterEffects and brought into the App).

what my clients say

Angie Moyes from Fuz created a beautiful logo for our sustainable agriculture platform EcoProMIS. It was a pleasure to work with her. | Roelof Kramer / EcoProMIS

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... Angie has worked with us on many projects, consistently surprising me with her ability to add substantial value to all sorts of assignments. |Peter Bartlett / Cyrus

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... Angie has worked with us on many projects, consistently surprising me with her ability to add substantial value to all sorts of assignments. | Peter Bartlett / Cyrus

https://www.fuz.co.uk/testimonials/cyrus/

AbCam in start-up phase needed professional and fast creative help in graphic design and Angie delivered this superbly. | Jonathan Milner / Abcam

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AbCam in start-up phase needed professional and fast creative help in graphic design and Angie delivered this superbly. | Jonathan Milner / Abcam

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Working with Angie Moyes is always a real pleasure. She an extremely gifted and creative graphic designer in any media, print, the web, etc. Angie can take any design brief and improve it, and she is fast, efficient and very reliable. As a result, projects are always delivered on time and to budget. I cannot recommend her highly enough. | Rhonda Oliver / Portland Press Ltd

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Working with Angie Moyes is always a real pleasure. She an extremely gifted and creative graphic designer in any media, print, the web, etc. Angie can take any design brief and improve it, and she is fast, efficient and very reliable. As a result, projects are always delivered on time and to budget. I cannot recommend her highly enough. | Rhonda Oliver / Portland Press Ltd

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Angie has a pragmatic approach to design which means that what she develops is fit for purpose, still creative and stylish, but very much with the client’s budget and needs in mind. Her eye for detail means that mistakes are few and her preparation of files prior to print is exemplary. | Kate Farley / BP

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Angie has a pragmatic approach to design which means that what she develops is fit for purpose, still creative and stylish, but very much with the client’s budget and needs in mind. Her eye for detail means that mistakes are few and her preparation of files prior to print is exemplary. | Kate Farley / BP